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20 Unit 2: Digital jungle rm47uh Goals talk about crimes and justice justify your point of view talk and write a report about big data describe possible consequences of actions suggest changes to a plan or document talk about designing a site map put forward an argument in a blog comment Is it a crime? Look at the picture of people playing an online role-playing game together. 1 Have you ever played an online role-playing game? 2 Why do you think people enjoy playing games like this? REading 1 Read the headline of the newspaper article. What do you think the article’s about? Talk together. Read the article to check your ideas. According to the police, what was the woman’s crime? a breaking into someone’s computer b destroying a character from an online game c killing her husband a 2 b ONCE the stuff of low-quality science fiction movies, the crime of virtual murder may become a reality, following the arrest of a middle- aged piano teacher from southern Japan who murdered her virtual husband.  The 43-year-old woman hacked into the computer of theman shemarried in the online game MapleStory and deleted his carefully constructed virtual character after their relationship turned sour.  Police arrested her this week following a com- plaint by the man, a 33-year-old office worker who lives on the other side of the country in the northern city of Sapporo, 1000 km away. The two apparently never had a face-to-face meeting and the woman is not suspected of a flesh-and-blood crime, say the police.  She is accused of using her virtual partner’s password and ID, which she acquired when they were a happily married virtual couple, to gain illegal access to his computer. The crime carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison or a fine of about £3,200.  “It sounds like a strange case, but obviously it is illegal to hack into someone else’s computer,” said a spokesman for the Sapporo police. “That is why she has been arrested.” It was a virtual murder …but the sentence is real Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv